GOOD FRIDAY SERMON WAS BROADCAST TO TRENCHES

Northern Advocate, 29 March 1937, Page 5

GOOD FRIDAY SERMON WAS BROADCAST TO TRENCHES

CIVIL WAR

t United Press Association. —By Elenfinc Telegraph. — Copyright.3 (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON. March 27.

A despatch from Valencia states that large contingents of Carlists are reported to be replacing mutinous Italians on the Guadalajara front. A Bilbao message says that the Good Friday sermon, preached in the Cathedral, was broadcast to the trenches, where loud speakers carried it both to the attacking insurgents and the defending loyalists in Biscaya, where there are numerous Catholic Republicans. Biscaya is the only portion of Republican Spain where Holy Ween ceremonies were observed. Churches in Madrid have been closed since the beginning of the war, but ceremonies were observed with traditional splendour and pomp in Seville, where processions of brotherhood with giant religious tableaux included a statue of the famous Madonna of the Faith. , Many women, who had taken vows to make the pilgrimage to Seville if their husbands and sons were spared till Easter, walked barefoot in the procession.. General Franco' pardoned 16 men sentenced to death owing to- Good Friday. ™;.~ Religious Procession Shelled. British visitors returning to Gibraltar report that Malaga was heavily shelled by the Government battleship Jaimei, as a religious procession was proceeding to Holy Week celebrations in the Cathedral. It is believed that three pilgrims w;ere killed and' sew eral injured. A number of Britons were in the line of fi,re, but were not' hit.. They returned immediately to Gibraltar.